Nellie Mogge B L A 2 0 1 2
by: John Palarz, Nellie Mogge, Shaun Loomis, Soojung Kim, Stephanie Salinas
Community Design Pell Farm Community Design Urbana, Illinois Concept
Site Context and Research
Design Challenge: For this team project,
The design consists of a variety of types of housing with pocket parks scattered throughout. Each neighborhood is located near the greenway which also links up with city streets, bike lanes, and bike paths.Plan The concept was to provide adequate housing while also Master having nature be always closeby.
the objective was to create a design for a unique and sustainable community development while working within the limitations of the current site conditions. The goal is to provide numerous and various types of housing with easy access to greenways and parks. The concept is to create a residential community that is self-sustaining while also connected to the greater Champaign-Urbana region. Site context revealed a close proximity to a lot of commercial establishments but it was decided to include some commercial elements in this design as well. In the small commercial area are local shops, a grocery store, and recreation areas. It was important to this design to keep a lot of amenities onsite and accessible so there is also a community ride-share program with trolley stops throughout the neighborhoods. Bike lanes run through all of the neighborhoods as well and connect with city streets. While there are pocket parks scattered throughout, an important design decision was to create one unifying park which will define the community as a whole. Another large element is the farm located at the south end of the site, where food can be produced for, within, and by the community.
Regional
Community Park
ďŹ ltering stream
Elevated bike path
Walking, bike path
Public Transit Pickup
Local Road
Local
Prairie
Greenway
Farm
Lot Descriptions Single family home Row Housing Senior Housing Commercial
Orchard
Parking
*Concept development and autocad linework done by Nellie Mogge
Pell Farm Individual Master Plan - Community Farm Concept
Master Plan
A challenge with farming is generating interest and having a constant work base. This farm would be run independent of the community by a team of experienced professionals. Members of the community would be invited and encouraged to volunteer and/or work there. The concept is to provide the community with a farm so they are able to grow their own food or purchase it from within their community. This conincides with the overall goal of creating a self-sustaining community.
Vehicle Bridge Section
Farm Section
Urban Design Downtown Champaign plaza Concept Design Challenges: Activate this currently vacant space in downtown Champaign, Illinois. The intent is to provide an interesting and inviting plaza that will act as a thoroughfare, provide an area to rest, and a space for recreation during both day and night. Ample seating and seasonally interesting vegetation will attract people to this space, as well as quality paving and lighting materials. The center feature is an accessible green roof shelter/mound. Its’ playful nature will be attractive for children who can play on and under the structure. Daytime: The seating provided will atrract people working downtown during the day as a place to rest or eat lunch. The green roof shelter will provide visual interest for the M2 building located across the street. Nightlife: There is plenty of seating provided to attract a lot of people from surrounding bars and restaurants. Adequate dark-sky approved lighting is also provided so that people feel safe in the space at night.
Champaign, Illinois
Site context and research
Master Plan
Downtown Champaign Plaza Green Roof shelter and details Details These details represent the overarching concept to provide an enjoyable, recreational, and green space which would be accessible and active at all hours of the day. Sculptures in the plantings add visual interest. They also match the surrounding downtown artistic culture. The water feature doubles as a retention basin to capture and store runoff from the green roof. IDA Approved Dark Sky friendly landscape lighting is present on the YG Financial Group wall to make the space usable during evening hours.
Sculptures
Seat Wall
Water Feature
Site plan perspective Green Roof Shelter
Plant Selection
Permeable Pavement Plantings: Sedum, grass mix Dark Sky Lighting
Serviceberry
Water Feature
LiveRoof System Under roof - evening
Green roof section - day
Seating Section - evening
Sugar Maple
Green roof design Krannert Native Roof
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Concept
Urbana, IL.
Site Context
Master Plan
Design Challenge: Propose a design for a green roof atop
Analysis and Research
the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. The design had to first consider structural limitations and load-bearing requirements before making design decisions. A particular finding which affected the final design were pillars found in the architectural documentationPSF which would be able support , Pillar locations, andtoa shade study a greater load. determined plant selection and locaAn individual challenge was a design decision to only tion include native plants. A major challenge of green roof design is finding plants to use that are native. By virtue of being on a roof, the hardiness zone is altered because the plants are going to be subjected to warmer and more severe temperatures. There are certain habitats in Illinois, though, that contain conditions similar to those found on a green roof. These include prolonged exposure to direct sunlight, extreme drought, and shallow to no soil profiles. The plants that exist in these habitats are extremely resilient and adaptable species, making them a perfect choice for green roofs. Using the habitat template approach, each area of the roof was classified based PSF on its’ conditions and then plants were chosen based on this classification.
Habitat Descriptions 1. Central Limestone Rocky Uplands (Glades, Glade Rock Barrens, Outcrops, and Alvars): Interior Highlands Carbonate Glades and Barrens
Plantings based on Illinois Habitats 2. Midwest Dry Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Limestone - DolosBadlands: Eastern Dry Classifications Alkaline Cliffs tone Cliff a. Central Limestone Glade b. Midwest Dry Sandstone Cliff c. North Central Dry Limestone Dolomite Prairie d. Midwest Sand Barrens e. Midwest Dry Limestone Dolostone Cliffs, Talus, Buttes Cliff Lime3. Midwest f. Midwest Limestone andDolostone Badlands:Talus stone - Dolostone Planting Diagram
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Prairies/Grasslands: Midwestern Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie
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Ground Plane 1st Level
Shade Study
2nd Level
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Areas where there are pillars underneath were found to be able to support a greater load
6. North-Central Dry Prairie/Grassland: Limestone - Dolomite Midwestern Thin-Soil Tallgrass Prairie Prairie
3rd Level
Elevation
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Green Roofs and Facades: A Habitat Template Approach, Lundholm
Krannert native roof Site analysis and research Habitat Template Approach “Green Roofs and Facades: A Habitat Template Approach� Lundholm
Analysis and Research
Habitat Descriptions 1. Central Limestone Rocky Uplands (Glades, Glade Rock Barrens, Outcrops, and Alvars): Interior Highlands Carbonate Glades and Barrens
PSF, Pillar locations, and a shade study determined plant selection and location
Analysis and Research PSF, Pillar locations, and a shade study determined plant selection and location
Analysis and Research
PSF, pillar locations and shade
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PSF
Habitat Descriptions 1. Central Limestone Rocky Uplands (Glades, Glade Rock Barrens, Outcrops, and Alvars): Interior Highlands Carbonate Glades and Barrens PSF
4. Midwest Dry
Color AnalysisCliffs, Talus, Buttes Sandstone Cliff
3. Midwest Limestone - Dolostone Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Talus Planting Diagram Badlands: Eastern Dry Alkaline Cliffs Pillar Locations
2. Midwest Dry Limestone - Dolostone Cliff
2. Midwest Dry Limestone - DolosHabitat Descriptions tone Cliff 1. Central Limestone Rocky Uplands (Glades, Glade Rock Barrens, Outcrops, and Alvars): Interior Highlands Carbonate Glades and Barrens 3. Midwest Limestone - Dolostone 2. Midwest Dry Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, Talus and Planting Diagram Limestone - DolosBadlands: Eastern Dry tone Cliff Alkaline Cliffs
Groundcover
PSF
Pillar Locations
Planting Diagram
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4. Midwest Dry Sandstone Cliff Pillar Locations
Shade Study
Grass
Off - Site Tree
Foliage
Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Ground Plane Badlands: 1stEastern Dry Level Acid Cliffs 2nd Level
Grass
4. Midwest Dry Sandstone Cliff
Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Badlands: Eastern Dry Alkaline Cliffs
Cliffs, Talus, Buttes and Badlands: Eastern Alkaline Talus
Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Badlands: Eastern Dry Acid Cliffs
and Badlands: Eastern Alkaline Talus
Off - Site Tree
Foliage
5. Midwest Sand Barrens
Cliffs, Talus, Buttes, and Ground Plane Badlands: Eastern Dry 1st Level Acid Cliffs 2nd Level
Prairies/Grasslands: Midwestern Sand and Gravel Tallgrass Prairie
6. North-Central Dry Prairie/Grassland: Limestone - Dolomite Midwestern Thin-Soil Tallgrass Prairie Prairie Prairies/Grasslands: Midwestern Sand and Green Roofs and Facades: A Habitat Temp Elevation Gravel Tallgrass Prairie
3rd Level
5. Midwest Sand Barrens
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Areas where there are pillars underneath were found to be able to support a greater load 5. Midwest Sand Barrens
Groundcover
Grass
Off - Site Tree
Foliage
Ground Plane
3rd Level
Prairies/Grasslands: Midwestern Sand and Elevation Gravel Tallgrass Prairie
6. North-Central Dry Prairie/Grassland: Limestone - Dolomite Midwestern Thin-Soil Tallgrass Prairie Prairie Green Roofs and Facades: A Habitat Template Approach, Lundholm
Krannert native roof Construction documents Master Plan Planting List Master plan andand planting list All plants listed are native species of Illinois Broadcast seeding shall be of equal ratio based on speciďŹ cied area.
Green roof sections
Krannert native roof Design Perspective rendering Section - plant community on mound Central Limestone Glade Habitat
Photoshop rendering displaying the plant community on this area of the roof. Habitat Description: An assortment of plants originally found on rocky uplands, such as glades, rock barrens, outcrops, and alvars. “This community occurs on gentle to steep slopes of hills, knobs, ridges, bluffs along streams, and broad terraces. Aspect is variable, but the community is generally best developed on southern and western exposures. Parent material is limestone, cherty limestone, dolomite, or calcareous shale which is exposed at the surface, resulting in a very shallow, well-drained substrate. Soils are neutral to alkaline, shallow to moderately deep, and contain a homogenous misture of rock fragments of various sizes.� The mounds shown in this rendering (#3, 4) are planted with Flowering Spurge, Biennial BeeBlossom, Little Bluestem Hoary Puccoon, Yellow Indiangrass, Purple Threeawn Cedar boardwalk
Sculpture Piece-Corten steel
Commonly used plants throughout habitats
Schizachyrium scoparium Asclepias tuberosa Sorghastrum nutans
Solidago nemoralis
Regional Design - Natural areas management Hollow Habitats in Allerton Park
Mahomet, Illinois
Floodp 2012 Level 3 Sasaki Day Awards Finalist
Site Landcover The concept behind the design interventions for Robert Allerton Park comes from a respect for the natural systems taking place in this floodplain forest as well as a desire to improve accessibility to these natural areas in a safe way. Since Robert Allerton stopped being a steward of the park, natural processes have taken over and the only areas which are still maintained are the formal areas. Interventions to be made at this point involve reinviting the public to areas other than the formal areas and making these new areas safe for public access through improved signage and mile markers. The park shall continue to exist and provide an abundance of habitat for native flora and fauna which require snag and den trees for their livelihood. This preserve will represent a lost habitat in Illinois due to development and the public shall be invited to experience and view it for years to come.
Upstream
Stewardship
mile markers
bike trail on Allerton Road
Activate unused spaces
New levels of immersion
Scenario 1 allows for the great sion It is situated on the north close to the road and entrance the most visitors. The large loo appropriate here away from th require less maintenance and erosion. GIS analysis also direc because a view through the sp be possible. Finally, this area is highest in the park, allowing fo above and through the canopy
Hollow Habitats Site analysis State, regional, site
Prairie
Analysis focused on local context, the remnant prairie, and snag and den trees. Mahomet, Piatt County, Illinois
Site analysis
Prairie findings: A soil analysis revealed that the soils surrounding the remnant prairie in Allerton Park are more suitable for prairie than they are for the woody vegetation that is currently growing there. The prairie is also quite small and uninviting in terms of human interaction.
GIS Application Results Allerton Park houses thousands of snags, however a few areas were extracted through research and GIS layer reclassiďŹ cation to represent areas within the site that would have the least amount of snags.
GIS Raster Calculation Allerton Park houses thousands of snags, however, a few areas were extracted through research and subsequent GIS layer reclassification to represent areas that have the least amount of snags. GIS raster calculation was used to determine those areas where the least amount of snags would occur on the site. The following criteria affect the presence of snag and den trees: Slope, aspect, vegetation type, hydrology. These were given classifications and put through the calculation.
Final Results/hydrology & slope
Analysis was based on the following criteria:
ReclassiďŹ ed layers based on likelihood of snag occurrence
least
Extractions - least likely areas for snags to occur
Final Output
highest
Original layers
Slope Slope
Least likely
Aspect
Aspect
Final Results/SOILS Forest Forest
Wetland
Wetland
Floodplain Flood-
Stream Buffer Stream buffer 100 ft.
100 ft.
Raster Calculator
Areas with the lowest frequency of snag occurrence Soil type:Lawson Sawmill Darwin Soil parent material: Sandy to clayey alluvial sediments on bottomlands
taken onsite around final output location The GIS analysis led to an unexpected finding. The area which was calculated to have the least likelihood of snag occurence also appears to have a sparse tree canopy, compared with the rest of the site. A site visit revealed this to be true.
Hollow Habitats Snag and Den tree habitats Photos from site visualized with research Analysis of old photos and historical research tells us that the majority of the forest in Allerton is about 80-100 years old. The forests’ of Allerton are also the ideal place for snags to occur. Old growth forests contain trees more that 100 years old plus seedlings, saplings, shrubs, and pole-size timber. Also present are a full measure of dens, snags, rotting logs, and abundant mast production to support a variety of wildlife. Snags are essential habitat components that are utilized for nesting, roosting, and foraging. American beaver (Castor canadensis) ponds, open wooded swamps, rivers bordered by hardwoods, and other riparian or wetland areas where snags are plentiful provide valuable habitat. Similary, trees killed by flooding as well as those bordering lakes, marshes, and other frequently flooded areas support red-headed woodpecker populations.
Perch Nest Feed Endangered
Hollow Habitats Research based design Floodplain
Goals and objectives
Scenario 3 - a stone path walkway through a shallow part of the river. It allows for more interaction with the river while not being obtrusive.
1. Address the issues with scale that now face the park based on the changes that have occured over time. a. Implement improved signage along trails with mile markers every 0.5-1 miles. b. Update the trail signs with improved materials so the maps are legible. 2. Address the lack of immersion into interesting natural areas. a. Design small to large scale immersion features that allow people to better with interact natural areas, including the floodplain and prairie. 3. Reintroduce a sense of stewardship in the park a. Invite community members through improved access. b. Add a new parking lot specifically for the prairie area. Prairie: to be expanded slowly by girdling the trees, followed by managed removal.
Prairie Parking Lot with bus, vehicle, and bike parking
New savanna border - 50 years
Time Series Sections
Scenario 1 allows for the greatest level of immersion. It is situated on the north side of the site, close to the road and entrance which will atrract the most visitors. The large lookout structure is appropriate here away from the river because it will require less maintenance and will not contribute to erosion. GIS analysis also directed the placement because a view through the sparse tree canopy will be possible. Finally, this area is also one highest in the park, allowing for interesting views above and through the canopy.
Elementary class in prairie - utilizing bus parking and new prairie trail
Scenario 2 would achieve three goals: -Activate the meadow space through a pathway. -Appeal to short term visitors coming from the north end of park, near the formal area. -Provide an interesting sculptural feature for visitors to continue Robert Allerton’s legacy.
Rain Garden Design
Trellis Design
Create a portable landscape to be sent via postal service to Munster, Germany Medium: string Portable Landscape Process: The process Design goal:began with speculations on how to “send” a location, elevational point. to be sent via postal service Create aorportable landscape Concept: to Munster, Germany Visually representing one’s place on earth through the Medium: active stringperformance of measuring distance. Process: The process began with speculations on how to “send” a location, or elevational point. Concept: Visually representing one’s place on earth through the active performance of measuring distance.
What does elevation look like? What does elevation look like?
Champaign, Illinois
Champaign, Illinois
Munster, Germany
Munster, Germany
Champaign, IL.
Munster, Germany
Boneyard Arts Festival UIUC Landscape Collective 110 W. Main St., 2nd Floor
Interior landscapes
Steel rod bent into a star shape sat atop a curved glass brick wall. Suction cups were put on at the bent corners for stability and protection of the glass. Hanging off of each protruding end of the star was a piece of ice in either a triangle or cylinder shape. Frozen inside each ice form was one end of a thin piece of beading wire. A loop on the other end of the wire allowed for the ice to be hung off of the rod. Sitting on the floor below each ice form was an aluminum can which created noise with each ice drip. The artists used towels to clean up the water which splattered outside the cans onto the wood floor.
LA 336 Nellie Mogge, Christopher Carl Saturday April 9th 7-9pm
Landscape
architecture
Wonder
Maintenance - the dripping of the ice had to be maintained
over the 2 hour time period of the show. When the aluminum cans were filled with water, the desired dripping noise was no longer present. The cans needed to be carefully monitored and periodically emptied to maintain the desired sound. Cleaning up the areas where water had spilled out of the cans was also a necessary task. This is similar to landscapes where we enjoy their temporal qualities but forget to take into consideration the maintenance and care that went into their construction. This situated ice event was a concentrated instance of this type of phenomenon seen in many landscapes today.
Public
structured perception
Edward L. Ryerson Traveling Fellowship “Advances within the European green roofing industry: Practices, Policy, and Design� 7 week fellowship through Europe to study green roofing practices and attend Swiss green roof tour Travel Route
Selected work from final project
Stuttgart green roof examples
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humus
large rocks
chopped china reed
Residential Water
Stuttgart, Germany
local material-lava, pumus rock
variability in plantings
Following the Swiss tour, my green roof pursuits, with helpful tips from Green Roof Safari, led me to Munich and then Stuttgart, Germany. In Stuttgart, I was delighted at the way the landscape itself aided in the appreciaRathausgarage green tion of the many green roofs throughout theAtop city. Thethe rolling hills covered in vineyards and theroof many lookouts allow for a clear viewthrough of the city’s green direction. Through the use of the various lookouts throughout the city, I was able to analyze some projects a birds
eye perspective. This project, for example, shows how certain areas of the roof were predetermined for accessibility in the architectural design stage. Thinking of a green roof from the beginning allows for a more symbiotic relationship between roof and structure, outside and inside, landscape and interior. The intensive roof garden seen in the middle photo was obviously a forethought prior to architectural decisions and construction. The needs of the landscape coincided with the needs of the structure and a much more integrated design emerged. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� �����������������������������������������������������
Earth House Deconstructed Semi-intensive or extensive roof soil layer depth: 16-32 in. Vegetation Humus Excavation material Fibre ďŹ lter matting Insulation: Foamed waste glass water barrier: root-proof polymer bitumen shotcrete approximation, NTS
Freiburg - Rieselfeld
Potentials of green roofs
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My next stop on my journey was to the small new village of Rieselfeld, located just outside of Freiburg, Germany. Freiburg, a city well-renowned for its status as the German green capital, founded the new district in 1992. It was originally aimed at young people in an effort to discourage suburban sprawl. Development started in 1993 and all of the houses are low energy, equipped with green roofs, photovoltaics and solar heating. It is an interesting urban design case study in its’ own right but in terms of green roofs, it is an interesting display of the types of architecture that are following green roof mandates. (7,8) I was originally curious as to how green roofs were altering or directing architecture. By including green roofs in the building design from the beginning, how does this alter the rest of the architectrual direction? The structures in Rieselfeld all have a similar goal and therefore they all end up with a somewhat similar appearance. Also, since the district is composed almost entirely of extensive green roofs, the structural image based on load bearing capability will be similar throughout.
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Firstly, a change in the terminology based on a green roof’s achievement of the above Best Practices would separate some of the “greenwashedâ€? projects from those that actually provide some sort of ecological advantages. Greenwashing occurs when the only aim of the project is to provide a green roof for the idea of having a green roof. The goal is to have some sort of vegetation growing on the roof but only for aesthetic and �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� most green roofs in general. The separation of the terms would allow for there to be incentives for the design and installation of these ecoroofs, thereby encouraging their promotion and proliferation. ďż˝ ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� product. Sustainable installation and maintenance practices are important as well. An example of a sustainable installation practice would be like in the case of the BVB tram depot where they trucked in bales of miscanthus and simply layed it down on the roof as a layer of substrate. Sustainable maintenance practices would be those roofs which require little to no irrigation or do not require annual mowing. In the case of the Rathausgarage in Stuttgart, the cuttings that are trimmed from the vegetated roof are then returned to the company manufacturer (such as Zinco) and later recycled as fresh cuttings on a new roof. Local material usage is an especially impor��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ecology, is already being required in new green roofs in Basel, Switzerland. There are many simple ways as outlined previously of designing for an increased amount of habitat and biodiversity. Can a green roof be the impetus for subsequent creative ecological design? Through the separation of �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������quires more creativity at the architectural design phase. If the design of ecoroofs came with more incentives, we could see a lot more ecoroofs as well as much more interesting pieces of ecological architecture. In the future the importance of providing a habitat has the potential to override and alter certain architectural decisions. The architecture we will see coming out of this time period will be representative of green roof mandates and ecological consciousness. The emergent architectural style of this time will therefore be representative of people’s eco-minded values and beliefs.
Growing Power Internship Selected Work, Sketchup, Photography
Milwaukee, WI. & Chicago, IL.
Site Assignment
Iron Street
For my internship, I was stationed in Milwaukee for 3 weeks for training and Chicago for 7 weeks for work. At the training, I learned about all of the methods that Growing Power uses to provide fresh, local, and sustainable food to people in the community. Once I got to Chicago, my primary site assignment for the summer was on Iron Street. My responsibilities included daily farm maintenance, to include watering, planting, transplanting, harvesting produce, and maintaining the vermicomposting systems seen to the left. My other site assignment was at the urban agriculture potager located in Grant Park. Here, we would plant, transplant, and harvest produce for the farmer’s markets.
Aquaponics
I was given the task during my time in Milwaukee of transplanting watercress between aquaponics systems. This was done by taking a handful of the plant from a system where the plants were becoming Vermicomposting on Iron Street woody and overcrowded. Then, I tore off the orand worm is the final product of the roots to promote new growth put compost, this breakdown of organic material by worms. in another system. Pea gravel was used to stabilize the new planting. Watercress is an Growing Power uses worms to create a indicator of water quality and does not like nutrient-rich, to live in murky water. This filter feed plant organic fertilizer and soil essentially “cleans” the mucky water thatthat is they use on all of their growing conditioner being circulated from the fish tankand below. beds as a value-added product to sell. It is highly valued in the culinary world and a very good cash crop for Growing Power.
I was instructed to fix the current vermicompsting “worm tea” catchment system to capture the tea so it could be successfully utilized rather than go to waste. Since the worms bins need to be watered daily to keep the worms cool, excess water in the form of “worm tea” seeps out of the bins and onto the floor. In an attempt to capture this nutrient-rich material, Growing power created a worm-tea catchment system using a plastic sheet secured under the bin. This sheet was not secured properly and tea was Edible Border Planting getting caught in Asparagus the system. The solution that amaranth, fern, edible marigolds, purple flowering kale, sunflowers, two other interns and I found for this problem cardinal runner beans, dusty miller, zinnias, pumpkins was first to secure the plastic with pieces of wood lath and screws. We then watered the bin to see where water was draining to and cut a hole here. A bucket was placed under the hole and we were able to successfully harvest buckets of tea.
Vermiculture Sketchup rendering of the fixed vermicompost bins used to capture “worm tea,” which is used to fertilize plants. This was my initial work assignment at Iron Street. We fixed them by securely fastening a sheet to the bottom of the system which would drain into a bucket.
Vermicomposting
Grant Park Produce here needed to be harvested three times a week. The beds themselves required intensive maintenance because of their high profile location.
Landscape Design Internship Hursthouse, Inc. Drafted and rendered residential design
Landscape Design Internship Hursthouse, Inc. Additional drafting and rendering details